The Marriage (Same Sex Couples) Act 2013 (Consequential and Contrary Provisions and Scotland) and Marriage and Civil Partnership (Scotland) Act 2014 (Consequential Provisions) Order 2014

Social Security Administration Act 1992

12.—(1) Section 124 of the Social Security Administration Act 1992(1) (provisions relating to age, death and marriage) is amended as follows.

(2) In the closing words to subsection (1), after “custody” insert “(or in the case of marriages converted from civil partnerships, copies or extracts from the register of conversions)”.

(3) After subsection (3)(2), insert—

“(3A) Where it is required to be ascertained or proved for the purposes mentioned in subsection (1) above, that a civil partnership has been converted into a marriage, any person—

(a) on presenting to the superintendent registrar in whose district the conversion took place, a duly completed requisition in writing in that behalf; and

(b) on payment of a fee of £10.00;

is entitled to obtain a copy, certified under the hand of the superintendent registrar, of the entry relating to that marriage in the register of conversions.”.

(4) In subsection (4), for “subsection (3)” substitute “subsections (3) and (3A)”.

(5) In subsection (5)(a), before the definition of “Registrar General” insert—

““register of conversions” means the register of conversions of civil partnerships into marriages kept by the Registrar General in accordance with section 9 of the Marriage (Same Sex Couples) Act 2013 and regulations made under that section;”.

(1)

1992 c. 5; subsection (1)(aa) was inserted by the Jobseekers Act 1995 (c. 18), Schedule 2, paragraph 59, subsection (1)(ab) was inserted by the State Pension Credit Act 2002 (c. 16), Schedule 2, paragraphs 8 and 13, subsection (1)(ac) was inserted by the Welfare Reform Act 2007 (c. 5), Schedule 3, paragraphs 10(1) and 16 and amended by the Welfare Reform Act 2012 (c. 5), Schedule 2, paragraphs 3 and 17(a), subsection 1(ad) was inserted by the Welfare Reform Act 2012, Schedule 2, paragraphs 3 and 17(b), subsection (1)(ae) was inserted by the Welfare Reform Act 2012, Schedule 9, paragraphs 7 and 15, subsection (1)(af) was inserted by the Pensions Act 2014 (c. 19), Schedule 12, paragraphs 8 and 15, subsection (1)(ag) was inserted by the Pensions Act 2014, Schedule 16, paragraphs 20 and 28.

(2)

Subsection (3) was amended by S.I. 1997/2939, in relation to England and Wales by S.I. 2010/441 and in relation to Scotland by S.S.I. 2010/428. There are other amendments to section 124 not relevant to this Order.